ACF Blocks in a child theme

• juxprose

• April 16, 2019 at 9:08 pm

Is it possible to use ACF Blocks in a child theme? I’m using ACF 5.8 and the following code dropped into the functions.php file, from the ACF Blocks docs:

if( function_exists('acf_register_block') ) {
   add_action('acf/init', 'register_acf_blocks');
}

This does not result in “Block” showing up the “Show this field group- if…” menu.

Also tried the pluggable way for a child theme:

if ( ! function_exists( 'acf_register_block' ) ) {
  function acf_register_block() {
    add_action('acf/init', 'register_acf_blocks');
  }
}

Same result.

Removing the function_exists check results in the error Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function acf_register_block().

Any ideas?

Thanks

• juxprose

• April 16, 2019 at 9:24 pm

OK, so using a newer version of 5.8 (5.8.0-beta4) resulted in the “Blocks” item showing in the location menu, and this way of adding the function for the child theme ensures the block shows up in the list:

if ( ! function_exists( 'acf_register_block' ) ) {
  add_action('acf/init', 'register_acf_blocks');
}